I just wanted to share my awesome book bargain.
I found a super bargain at Barns&Noble, a book that I have looked for a long time but every time I found it it have either been out of stock or really expensive.
I got “Fashion: The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute” (18th to 20th century) for only 20$ which is totally crazy cheap for this book.
I also got “Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail” and “Nineteenth Century Fashion in Detail” from my mother and her boyfriend for Christmas. I am so happy because those books are just amazing and filled with wonderful pictures.
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Now I am horribly envious of you even though I received a gracious plenty of history books from Santa! :-)
Very cute idea! FYI, that little bird is a Cardinal, the “official” bird of North Carolina (I only know that because I’m a North Carolinian). Funny that you were visiting NC when you made this. :)
(oops! I posted my earlier comment under the wrong discussion thread – sorry)